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Ep 207: Wild Ernestness, Pt. 1, ft. Jonathan Farmer
NB: Alice also recommends this highly Mountainhead-esque footage of Peter Thiel.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
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The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
Paul Valery
Linda Gregerson
Stanley Plumly
Ep 132: Intermittent Positive Reinforcement on Harry Harlow
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lillian Ross
Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down by Adam Gopnik
Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America by Ava Kofman
Mountainhead (2025)
Drake VS Kendrick Explained to White People by Josh Johnson
Secret show notes
Pacino's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Tar (2023)
Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia, ft. Jonathan Farmer on the Order of the Third Bird
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway
In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991 to 1995 by Hayden Carruth
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Chris Childers
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
– Matt Wall
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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NB: Alice also recommends this highly Mountainhead-esque footage of Peter Thiel.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
Carson McCullers
National Book Critics Circle: A Conversation on Poetry Criticism
The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
Paul Valery
Linda Gregerson
Stanley Plumly
Ep 132: Intermittent Positive Reinforcement on Harry Harlow
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lillian Ross
Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down by Adam Gopnik
Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America by Ava Kofman
Mountainhead (2025)
Drake VS Kendrick Explained to White People by Josh Johnson
Secret show notes
Pacino's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Tar (2023)
Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia, ft. Jonathan Farmer on the Order of the Third Bird
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway
In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991 to 1995 by Hayden Carruth
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Chris Childers
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
– Matt Wall
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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